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Paradisi in sole, paradisus terrestris : or, a choice garden of all sorts of rarest flowers : with their nature, place of birth, time of flowering, names, and vertues to each plant, useful in physick, or admired for beauty. To which is annext a kitchen-garden furnished with all manner of herbs, roots, and fruits, for meat or sawce used with us. With the art of planting an orchard of all sorts of fruit-bearing trees and shrubs, shewing the nature of grafting, inoculating and pruning of them. Together with the right ordering, planting and preserving of them, with their select vertues: All unmentioned in former Herbals

by: Parkinson, John, 1567-1650; Thrale, Richard, active 1650-1667, bookseller

Publication date: 1656

Topics: Botany, Botany, Flowers, Plants, Herbs, Gardening, Materia medica, Vegetable, Materia medica

Publisher: London : Printed by R.N. and are to be sold by Richard Thrale at his shop at the signe of the Cross-Keys at S. Pauls-gate, going into Cheap-side

Collection: bostonpubliclibrary; americana

Contributor: Boston Public Library

Language: English

Main title page in double-lined border

Printer's device on main title page

Alternative title page, showing woodcut of Garden of Eden with Adam and Eve. Title in cartouche, with different version of alternative title: "A garden of all sorts of pleasant flowers ..."

Decorative headpieces and initial letters

Advertisements on final leaf

Alternative title: "A choice garden of all sorts of rarest flowers ..."

Spine title: "Parkinson's paradisi."

"Nearly a thousand plants are described under the three heads enumerated in the title, and of these 780 are figured on 109 plates, the wood-blocks for which, many of them copied from Clusius and Lobel, were specially cut in England". 'Dictionary of National Biography', XLIII, p. 315

Includes index

First published in 1629. Second edition was re-printed almost verbatim

Wing

ESTC

Boston Public Library (Rare Books Department) copy: lacking title page